The new "right to try" laws should technically allow us to get this treatment right now, so long as being driven to suicide would classify tinnitus as a fatal disease and frequencytx was willing to sell it. I emailed them and asked about that and there has been no response.See, they're just stringing us along.
Was there even any improvement from phase 1?
Again it's all about money.
Just a con job to string it along for more what little funding they do get.
If they had anything that worked, people would be throwing money at them.
Yes I'm very mad and tired of living this HELL. If the CDC was involved things would move faster.
All these years and not one dam thing to help us.
Hell there are even meds for people with HIV and that was because of the CDC.
I'm sorry for being so upset. I'm just venting... I begged them to let me in the trial but they said NO. I'm so tired of the lies and games from these people. It's nothing but wait, wait, wait.
WAIT for what?
You have not shown anything so far.
I'm sorry for being so upset, my brain is screaming so DAMN LOUD...
Rick
We need a White House petition. I'm working with an advocate for military veterans to get it promoted when I create it.How can someone get the CDC involved?
"...If successful, the current study will position us to advance to our Phase 2a program where we'll be looking to identify and characterize a hearing restoration signal and proof of biological concept in sensorineural hearing loss." [said Carl LeBel, Ph.D., Chief Development Officer of Frequency.]
I'm guessing that would be to further specify which hearing loss subtypes may benefit, and to allow wiggle room in case of practical cure failure in trial patients, but still "2a" and not 2/3 or 3? ://
Oh well, I guess that's the way it works. Not sure why they can't do the above in this trial though.
This does show that they are very methodical and serious so I do like that.I guess it's all a step by step plan.
1. Divide progenitors
2. Make them hair cells
3. strengthen and establish functional signals
4. Expand areas of treatment/establish how much to give.
From what I've read it's not really that expensive. And how much do they really need /patient? What's the volume of a cochlea?Do you think they are making it themselves to be more cost efficient? There's always that possibility.
Whenever you buy something that is manufactured, you have to take into account all the machinery they've used etc.
What if Frequency Therapeutics bought the machinery and the tools to make an abundance?
I seriously doubt they are just buying and mixing shit with millions of dollars.
I'm not sure how much. Size probably differs based on age, gender, and weight.From what I've read it's not really that expensive. And how much do they really need /patient? What's the volume of a cochlea?
From what I've read it's not really that expensive. And how much do they really need /patient? What's the volume of a cochlea?
A single injection into middle ear of"Patients received either an injection of FX-322 or a placebo in one ear with an initial follow up visit after two weeks and will continue to be monitored for the following three months"
.... So this means that it is more than 2 weeks that they all have been injected?
Unwanted side effects. very scary.They inject the drug into the middle ear so you need the middle ear volume. It's 1cm3 so around 1ml. It travels from the middle ear into the cochlea. If this works the same like an intratympanic cortisone injection, the middle ear will be filled nearly to the maximum and you are not allowed to talk or do anything else that could open your eustachian tube, otherwise the drug will be in your stomach. (talk, swallow, yawn, ...) After some time you can open the tube again of course...but this happens automatically anway.
What I don't understand right now is why you can't take it orally if it can so easily reach your stomach? Maybe they modified a lot or I misunderstood the workflow.
It's in slow release gel, so do you think it has some sticky properties or something? If it passed the first safety test, I wouldn't worry about it. As long as the surgery is done correctly.They inject the drug into the middle ear so you need the middle ear volume. It's 1cm3 so around 1ml. It travels from the middle ear into the cochlea. If this works the same like an intratympanic cortisone injection, the middle ear will be filled nearly to the maximum and you are not allowed to talk or do anything else that could open your eustachian tube, otherwise the drug will be in your stomach. (talk, swallow, yawn, ...) After some time you can open the tube again of course...but this happens automatically anway.
What I don't understand right now is why you can't take it orally if it can so easily reach your stomach? Maybe they modified a lot or I misunderstood the workflow.
I think it's going by fairly quickly. They produced good results and announced them last year before deciding to give us another trial less than a year after. If it continues at this rate, including their approach to strengthen the signals, we could have something in 2-3 years.I am confused by their timeline. I thought they were already in phase 2 but actually no, they are just going to start phase 2 in 2019 and how many sub-phases are there going to be for the phase 2 as they speak of phase 2a?
Hopefully the final phase 3 will be quicker and the FDA approval process won't be too long.
It's in slow release gel, so do you think it has some sticky properties or something?
He said if it is a success, they will begin the next phase early next year; all high doses in clinics spread across the USA, not just San Antonio.
Nerves have the ability to heal though. Right?"Hypothetical scenario"
If damaged auditory nerve fibers cause painful hyperacusis, and regenerating hair cells ends up giving patients cases of this awful condition, there will never a be a cure.
This worries me sick.
"Hypothetical scenario"
If damaged auditory nerve fibers cause painful hyperacusis, and regenerating hair cells ends up giving patients cases of this awful condition, there will never a be a cure.
This worries me sick.
There are other companies tackling the nerve aspect."Hypothetical scenario"
If damaged auditory nerve fibers cause painful hyperacusis, and regenerating hair cells ends up giving patients cases of this awful condition, there will never a be a cure.
Yes, the static noise of tinnitus and hyperacusis come from loss of outer hearing cells which focus more on amplification, while the pure tones of tinnitus are from the loss of inner hearing cells which focus on frequency/pitch like that of a piano.Nerves can heal. Hyperacusis, as far as, I know isn't always due to nerve damage. Dr. Susan Shore talks about this in a lecture that can be found here on the forums and on YouTube. There are haircells that are for sound of certain frequencies and then there are haircells that are for sound amplification. And when the amplifying cells get damaged people get Hyperacusis. I might be off on the details here since it was a long time I saw the lecture but this is what I recall from it.
Just that they are done with their enrollment for phase l/ll.I just saw that Frequency Therapeutics updated their clinical.gov description of FX-322. It happened a couple of days ago but does anyone know what they updated? I might've missed that part of discussion.